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Troopers responded to a call regarding an Emu walking on SR-570 (Polk Parkway) near the 16 Milepost.\u00a0 Upon arrival, Troopers were able to corral the flightless Australian <\/a>bird into the rear of a Road Ranger vehicle until the owners arrived and completed the recovery.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Troopers responded to a call regarding an Emu walking on SR-570 (Polk Parkway) near the 16 Milepost.\u00a0 Upon arrival, Troopers were able to corral the flightless Australian bird into the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcL0VtdS1vbi1TUi01NzAtMi1zY2FsZWQtMS53ZWJwP2ZpdD03NjglMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQW4gRW11IG9uIHRoZSBQb2xrIFBhcmt3YXk_IEhvdyBUcm9vcGVycyBDYXB0dXJlZCBhIFJ1bmF3YXkgQmlyZCBvbiBTUi01NzAiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.2EznCEG1Oh_jFsOzNslUjXKBc9cZKxS3nQ2HiNt9DTYMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDlcL0VtdS1vbi1TUi01NzAtMi1zY2FsZWQtMS53ZWJwP2ZpdD03NjglMkMxMDI0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQW4gRW11IG9uIHRoZSBQb2xrIFBhcmt3YXk_IEhvdyBUcm9vcGVycyBDYXB0dXJlZCBhIFJ1bmF3YXkgQmlyZCBvbiBTUi01NzAiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.2EznCEG1Oh_jFsOzNslUjXKBc9cZKxS3nQ2HiNt9DTYMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[15553,17329,15172,17334,17331,17332,17330],"class_list":["post-80846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-animal-rescue","tag-emu","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-loose-animal","tag-polk-parkway","tag-road-ranger","tag-sr-570"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80851,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80846\/revisions\/80851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}